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giving them the opportunity for promotion as 

 those in the higher positions leave or are pro- 

 moted. In order to show what these higher 

 salaried positions are, a list of the positions 

 now authorized in the Bureau of Laboratories 

 is given: 



BIOLOGICAL LABOBATOKT. 



Director, Biological Laboratory $3,500 



Pathologist and investigator 2,750 



Pathologist 2,250 



Pathologist 2,000 



Bacteriologist 1,800 



Entomologist 1,800 



Bacteriologist 1,500 



Assistant bacteriologist (two) 1,200 



CHEMICAL LABORATOET. 



Chemist and investigator 2,500 



Chemist, Economic Products Division 2,250 



Analyst 2,000 



Botanist 2,000 



Physiological chemist 1,800 



Assayer 1,800 



Chemist (two) 1,600 



Analyst 1,600 



Chemist 1,500 



SERUM LABORATORY. 



Director, Serum Laboratory 3,000 



Assistant director 2,500 



Veterinarian 1,600 



Assistant 1,400 



Assistant bacteriologist 1,500 



Vacancies are liable to occur in this list, 

 and the employees who are at present in the 

 bureau, if fit for the work, will, step by step, 

 be promoted as the opportunity arises. Ener- 

 getic young men who are willing to work up 

 in the service are desired. Colleges and uni- 

 versities which are able to train properly quali- 

 fied men are requested to submit lists of candi- 

 dates each year so that a sufficient number of 

 names may always be on hand. Facilities for 

 all classes of work will be of the best, and an 

 adequate library will be available. 



THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



As we have already reported the British 

 Association will meet this year at Cambridge, 

 under the presidency of the Honorable A. J. 

 Balfour, the British premier, from August lY 



to 24. We take from Nature the following 

 facts in regard to the meeting: 



In 1833, the third year of its existence, the 

 association met at Cambridge under the presi- 

 dency of Professor Adam Sedgwick; Sir J. F. 

 W. Herschel presided over the second meeting 

 in 1845, and the third Cambridge meeting was 

 held in 1862 under the presidency of Professor 

 Willis. 



The sectional meetings will in most cases be 

 held in the buildings of the several science de- 

 partments. The sections are the following: 

 A, mathematical and physical science, presi- 

 dent. Professor Horace Lamb, F.E.S. ; B, 

 chemistry, president. Professor Sydney Young, 

 F.E.S. ; C, geology, president, Mr. Aubrey 

 Strahan, F.E.S.; D, zoology, president, Mr. 

 William Bateson, F.E.S. ; E, geography, presi- 

 dent, Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield; F, economic 

 science and statistics, president. Professor 

 William Smart; G, engineering, president, 

 Hon. Charles A. Parsons, F.E.S.; H, anthro- 

 pology, president, Mr. Henry Balfour; I, 

 physiology, president. Professor C. S. Sher- 

 rington, F.E.S. ; K, botany, president, Mr. 

 Francis Darwin, F.E.S.; L, educational sci- 

 ence, president, the Eight Eev. the Lord 

 Bishop of Hereford. 



A ' Handbook to the Natural History of 

 Cambridgeshire ' specially written for the 

 meeting under the editorship of Dr. J. E. 

 Marr and Mr. A. E. Shipley, will be published 

 by the University Press; the syndics of the 

 press have decided to present a copy to each 

 ticket-holder, provided that the number to be 

 supplied for the purpose does not exceed 2,000 

 copies. A special edition of Mr. J. W. Clark's 

 ' Guide to the Town and University ' will be 

 presented to each member of the association, 

 also a series of excursion guides, together with 

 a colored map of East Anglia supplied by the 

 director-general of the ordnance surveys. 



Emmanuel College has agreed to entertain 

 the secretaries of sections. The majority of 

 the colleges have expressed their willingness 

 to entertain free of charge a limited number 

 of distinguished guests, and some of the col- 

 leges have agreed to place rooms at the dis- 

 posal of members, of the association, making a 

 charge for meals and attendance. Girton and 



